Even if you're right, there's no need for them to use Gnome. I'm hard pressed to think of something
you'd want to do on a NetBook that couldn't be done with XFCE or even, with some serious customizations,
IceWM
I give credit to the OLPC and the push it gave to
the computing world to come up with something lightweight but functional.
And that was long before Vista shipped.
The Netbooks were a result of the global awareness
the OLPC gave to a need for cheap, portable, functional computing.
Here in Southern Ontario, you can get ADSL from Bell Canada resellers. The problem is that Bell is still the upstream for all of them.
So while you may get different pricing and terms of service, when Bell decided to traffic shape, it did so for everyone's customers, not just their own.
And, so far, there's not a damn thing we can do about it, except go to cable internet, which in my area means Rogers - I'll save that for another discussion
WHAT!! What flipping laptop do you have? The XXD Inverter? I've had / used nearly 2 dozen laptops over the last decade and not one of them was that efficient at being in standby or that wasteful booting up.
alexborges did specifically state "American" so no, Beslan isn't a valid counterexample. I admit there is some ambiguity in his second sentence but that's common English phrasing.
Sorry to hear that but it's not a universal problem - I've had no issues with Gmail and the only time that there was an outage that was long enough for me to notice was over 2 years ago.
All in all, their free service has been an order of magnitude better than the various Exchange environments I've been in ( including BP ( 2 years ago, HP ( currently) and several medium sized ISPs) in terms of both service speed / reliability, mailbox size, searching and spam filtering / virus scanning. Of course, Google doesn't yet measure up with respect to the groupware or application integration features - and probably never will.
I have nothing bad to say about Yahoo mail - haven't really used them in years but Hotmail's pathetic spam filtering keeps me so busy cleaning up the mailbox that I rarely have time to read my messages.
First off, it's free, it gives you 7 Gigs of mail storage and it's accessible from any where or any device with an Internet connection. It searches through my 4 years of e-mail faster than Outlook ( in cached Exchange mode) can search the last week. They keep adding features - for free; have no annoying Flash ads and the ones they do have are off on the extremes of the page.
If you don't like it, stop using them - I promise you there won't be any pesky cancellation fees. Hotmail and Yahoo await you and we'll miss you all - maybe.
I'm not sure what your time frame is for "only now" but ACLs have been in Linux and FreeBSD for at least 5 years and I believe they were implemented in Solaris 2.5 in 1995
Isn't this the same kind of thinking behind closed source software / protocols? It's worked out pretty well for them up to now.
The difference I see is that employees don't write the terms and conditions of their employment so passing along your knowlegde may be implied. However, if documentation / knowlegde transfer wasn't specified in your job description / terms of employment, you might get away with it. It won't make you popular, though and may be an unwise move in certain industries or employment circles.
On the other hand, employers aren't saints either and, particularly in tough times, can be quick to hire or keep the monkey who'll work for the least bananas simply because they can tell him or her to just follow the documents. In that case, you've documented yourself into unemployment.
I must say that either you're very naive or have been very fortunate in the places you've work or are the boss - having been through 3 or 4 recessions / downturns in 2 major cities in my working life, I have to tell you that many people only manage to keep their jobs based on who they know or who they blow.
Faith in a higher power is a reaction to fear. If it works for you, great. But it doesn't work for everyone. But your "argument" against the big bang is utter nonsense - if the universe needed to be created by a supreme being, why wouldn't that being also need to be created? And, wrt to the wind, we have an explanation for it. We can simulate it and we can show the complete absence of it - a vacuum. Try that with your God.
I took a cursory look at the book some years ago and watched a lecture he gave on it several times. Interesting stuff but, jeez, what a self-absorbed blowhard. To listen to him talk about the years he's spent thinking about this stuff, he gives you the impression that he invented all of this out of whole cloth. In the lecture, he doesn't even mention Conway. What an arrogant ( albeit intelligent) prick.
Are you saying that the tiny percentage of the general population which is gay is so much better/more productive than the 99.99% of the other population it doesn't matter if you hurt the 99.99% productivity or your ability to hire out of that pool as that.01% of gay people that you can manage to hire is just that much better that its almost worth to piss off everyone else?
If that were so, I'm sure straight managers would bend over for them.
If that's all it takes to get them to bend over, I would argue those managers weren't straight to begin with.
Sons of bitches just want to oppress self-expression. What impact will this have on music and literature. Do have any idea how many fucking books have swear words? Un-fucking-believable.
The problem is that, far too often, those aren't the ones that end up calling the shots. And, partly due to their public exposure, cops are quick to close ranks when their actions are questioned.
Also, the purportedly impartial boards that are supposed to provide oversight are frequently ineffectual.
According to all of the published articles, this car doesn't meet US safty standards and the manufacturer isn't even saying that they'll try.
So guess what, these aren't going to show up in the US or EU.
Go spend some time on greencarcongress.com and read the hundreds of articles about US and EU manufacturers who are bringing PEV and HPEV cars to market.
This is not even close to revolutionary.
I said nothing about this being revolutionary. I was complimenting the Chinese manufacturer on "gittin' r dun". The established manufacturers could and should have had cars like this on the market a decade ago.
Welcome to Canada - we see that all the time in Montreal; it's actually quite beautiful, until it gets heavy enough to snap trees, down powerlines, make sidewalks and roads unnavigable.
Thanks for your reply - it's good to hear from someone who knows a thing or two about electric motors - I don't. I'm befuddled as to how AgentPaper got modded up for his post while you didn't
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Bet you still drive a Model T
Even if you're right, there's no need for them to use Gnome. I'm hard pressed to think of something you'd want to do on a NetBook that couldn't be done with XFCE or even, with some serious customizations, IceWM
I give credit to the OLPC and the push it gave to the computing world to come up with something lightweight but functional. And that was long before Vista shipped. The Netbooks were a result of the global awareness the OLPC gave to a need for cheap, portable, functional computing.
Here in Southern Ontario, you can get ADSL from Bell Canada resellers. The problem is that Bell is still the upstream for all of them. So while you may get different pricing and terms of service, when Bell decided to traffic shape, it did so for everyone's customers, not just their own. And, so far, there's not a damn thing we can do about it, except go to cable internet, which in my area means Rogers - I'll save that for another discussion
I don't think the screen is the problem but I'm betting the video card is.
WHAT!! What flipping laptop do you have? The XXD Inverter? I've had / used nearly 2 dozen laptops over the last decade and not one of them was that efficient at being in standby or that wasteful booting up.
Peter may be getting on in years, but he's not (yet) dead.
alexborges did specifically state "American" so no, Beslan isn't a valid counterexample. I admit there is some ambiguity in his second sentence but that's common English phrasing.
Both you and AC can't read. Let's try this again: Funny thing is... only Americans have ever targeted American schools...
Sorry to hear that but it's not a universal problem - I've had no issues with Gmail and the only time that there was an outage that was long enough for me to notice was over 2 years ago.
All in all, their free service has been an order of magnitude better than the various Exchange environments I've been in ( including BP ( 2 years ago, HP ( currently) and several medium sized ISPs) in terms of both service speed / reliability, mailbox size, searching and spam filtering / virus scanning.
Of course, Google doesn't yet measure up with respect to the groupware or application integration features - and probably never will.
I have nothing bad to say about Yahoo mail - haven't really used them in years but Hotmail's pathetic spam filtering keeps me so busy cleaning up the mailbox that I rarely have time to read my messages.
First off, it's free, it gives you 7 Gigs of mail storage and it's accessible from any where or any device with an Internet connection.
It searches through my 4 years of e-mail faster than Outlook ( in cached Exchange mode) can search
the last week. They keep adding features - for free;
have no annoying Flash ads and the ones they do have are off on the extremes of the page.
If you don't like it, stop using them - I promise you there won't be any pesky cancellation fees.
Hotmail and Yahoo await you and we'll miss you all - maybe.
I'm not sure what your time frame is for "only now" but ACLs have been in Linux and FreeBSD for at least 5 years and I believe they were implemented in Solaris 2.5 in 1995
The Virtual Machine!! What's the patent number on this one?
Isn't this the same kind of thinking behind closed source software / protocols?
It's worked out pretty well for them up to now.
The difference I see is that employees don't write the terms and conditions of their employment so passing along your knowlegde may be implied.
However, if documentation / knowlegde transfer wasn't specified in your job description / terms of employment, you might get away with it. It won't make you popular, though and may be an unwise move in certain industries or employment circles.
On the other hand, employers aren't saints either and, particularly in tough times, can be quick to hire or keep the monkey who'll work for the least bananas simply because they can tell him or her to just follow the documents.
In that case, you've documented yourself into unemployment.
I must say that either you're very naive or have been very fortunate in the places you've work or are the boss - having been through 3 or 4 recessions / downturns in 2 major cities in my working life, I have to tell you that many people only manage to keep their jobs based on who they know or who they blow.
Which idiot modded this "Insightful"?
Faith in a higher power is a reaction to fear. If it works for you, great. But it doesn't work for everyone.
But your "argument" against the big bang is utter nonsense - if the universe needed to be created by a supreme being, why wouldn't that being also need to be created?
And, wrt to the wind, we have an explanation for it.
We can simulate it and we can show the complete absence of it - a vacuum. Try that with your God.
I took a cursory look at the book some years ago and watched a lecture he gave on it several times.
Interesting stuff but, jeez, what a self-absorbed blowhard. To listen to him talk about the years he's spent thinking about this stuff, he gives you the impression that he invented all of this out of whole cloth.
In the lecture, he doesn't even mention Conway.
What an arrogant ( albeit intelligent) prick.
Are you saying that the tiny percentage of the general population which is gay is so much better/more productive than the 99.99% of the other population it doesn't matter if you hurt the 99.99% productivity or your ability to hire out of that pool as that .01% of gay people that you can manage to hire is just that much better that its almost worth to piss off everyone else?
If that were so, I'm sure straight managers would bend over for them.
If that's all it takes to get them to bend over, I would argue those managers weren't straight to begin with.
Sons of bitches just want to oppress self-expression. What impact will this have on music and literature. Do have any idea how many fucking books have swear words?
Un-fucking-believable.
The problem is that, far too often, those aren't the ones that end up calling the shots. And, partly due to their public exposure, cops are quick to close ranks when their actions are questioned.
Also, the purportedly impartial boards that are supposed to provide oversight are frequently ineffectual.
Here's a recent report from my province:
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/508889
If you think that someone who's cynical about government and cops is unrealistic, you haven't spent enough time reading the news or history.
According to all of the published articles, this car doesn't meet US safty standards and the manufacturer isn't even saying that they'll try.
So guess what, these aren't going to show up in the US or EU.
Go spend some time on greencarcongress.com and read the hundreds of articles about US and EU manufacturers who are bringing PEV and HPEV cars to market.
This is not even close to revolutionary.
I said nothing about this being revolutionary. I was complimenting the Chinese manufacturer on "gittin' r dun".
The established manufacturers could and should have had cars like this on the market a decade ago.
Welcome to Canada - we see that all the time in Montreal; it's actually quite beautiful, until it gets heavy enough to snap trees, down powerlines, make sidewalks and roads unnavigable.
Thanks for your reply - it's good to hear from someone who knows a thing or two about electric motors - I don't.
I'm befuddled as to how AgentPaper got modded up for his post while you didn't
Congratulations - they've discovered GREED. Film at 11.